WASHINGTON — By providing free consulting and some software, Google Inc. is helping state governments make reams of public records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to ...

Matt Earle is an entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada, and is the President of Reputation.ca, an online reputation management company. Managing your reputation may be simply removing yourself from ...

Running an online background search is a great way to find out personal information on almost anyone. Whether you're looking to research a potential date, look up a new neighbor, or identify an ...

A new database launched by MuckRock, collaborating with Reveal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, will make it easier to explore open government laws and request information from state and local ...

A week after the state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo repealed the 44-year-old state law that shielded police disciplinary records from the public, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city ...

The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the NYPD for the release of more disciplinary records of officers it requested in the spring, arguing the public database currently available offers an ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WJET/WFXP) — Billions of records containing personal information of U.S. residents may have been exposed after a background check company fell victim to a breach, a new lawsuit ...

A statewide database of once-secret public records of misconduct and use of force by California law enforcement officers, including records from Solano County and Vallejo, launched this week. Anyone ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California ...

On Tuesday, personal data broker National Public Data acknowledged a data breach that involves 2.7 billion pieces of personal information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, in ...

The Business Journal collects Portland-area public records on real estate transactions, liens and bankruptcies and compiles them weekly. Each week the Business Journal compiles public records on real ...